Dixie - In Memoriam
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Three days after the tragedy in Arizona, the liberals find themselves in quite a quandary, over their initial emotive knee-jerk reactions to the shootings. Armed with absolutely no evidence, the left set out to cast blame for the tragedy on the TEA Party and the tone of political rhetoric from the right. This plays well for their base, but that's about it. The overwhelming rest of the country, finds the liberal ploy despicable and in poor taste, so now, the turning of the worm begins, as the left tries to run away from their original accusations, and blame the right for all the controversy.
Let me help you with how the liberal logic works here... It's not 'politicizing' the tragedy for a lefty to make the false and unsupportable claim the rhetoric of the right caused this... that's legitimate. It IS politicizing the tragedy to point out there is no evidence connecting political rhetoric to the shootings. The use of imagery such as cross hairs and targets by the right, was clearly what motivated the killer, even though no evidence exists to support that assertion, it is a perfectly and reasonable thing to assert... however, similar imagery used by the left, could not have possibly motivated the killer, although there is no evidence to support that assertion either. Both of these assertions are made on the basis of the right's support of gun ownership, and the left's anti-gun position. Is everyone following the insanity?
Now, the simple-minded liberal logic and thinking on this, will be the thing that dooms the liberal every time. What they failed to realize, in their haste to emotively blame the right, was the times have changed in America. The voter has access to all kinds of information online, and has become awaken to the politics of our country, in a way we have never seen before, simply because of the new technology. Voters are awake, as they have been in the past, only now, they are armed with an Internet full of information and knowledge. Extremists on either side, will gravitate toward the extreme views, but the independent-minded and impartial voter, will avoid the 'rhetoric' at these sites, and do their own research. When they do this, they will likely find, Gabrielle Giffords was not a flaming liberal socialist, she was a moderate to conservative (fiscal) Democrat.. a Blue Dog... like Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman. She was FAR from a Nancy Pelosi. She voted to extend the Bush Tax Cuts... She voted to end the moratorium on offshore drilling... maybe the gunman was one of those wacko environmentalist Bush haters? She voted against the Mine Safety Act... maybe Loughner was a disgruntled union representative? See where the liberal logic leads us?
The knee-jerk attempts by those on the left, to somehow attribute blame for this, to Sarah Palin, the usage of cross hairs or targets, the 'tone of rhetoric' on the right, is going to backfire badly for liberals, and they are already beginning to see that. Today, they are starting to change their tune, and attempt to reposition their argument behind a false fortification... oh, of course we have to look at the rhetoric from BOTH sides... but they do not mean this! You see, to a Liberal, what they espouse is never "rhetoric" at all! It's just the "truth" and you want to call it "rhetoric!" So, all of this hate and vile they've unleashed on Bush and the Teabaggers... well, it doesn't apply here! That's NOT rhetoric to the Liberal, so it doesn't count!
In essence, this Blame The Right strategy, is over. The exploitation of this tragedy is well-noted now, and liberals have taken a big steamy crap in their own lunch boxes, AGAIN! They don't realize this yet, they still believe they can somehow make their arguments stick... but this will dissipate in the weeks to come, as they see how much of a political failure it is. Liberals, you shouldn't have ever politicized this, but you did... now it's ugly.
And America watches.
Let me help you with how the liberal logic works here... It's not 'politicizing' the tragedy for a lefty to make the false and unsupportable claim the rhetoric of the right caused this... that's legitimate. It IS politicizing the tragedy to point out there is no evidence connecting political rhetoric to the shootings. The use of imagery such as cross hairs and targets by the right, was clearly what motivated the killer, even though no evidence exists to support that assertion, it is a perfectly and reasonable thing to assert... however, similar imagery used by the left, could not have possibly motivated the killer, although there is no evidence to support that assertion either. Both of these assertions are made on the basis of the right's support of gun ownership, and the left's anti-gun position. Is everyone following the insanity?
Now, the simple-minded liberal logic and thinking on this, will be the thing that dooms the liberal every time. What they failed to realize, in their haste to emotively blame the right, was the times have changed in America. The voter has access to all kinds of information online, and has become awaken to the politics of our country, in a way we have never seen before, simply because of the new technology. Voters are awake, as they have been in the past, only now, they are armed with an Internet full of information and knowledge. Extremists on either side, will gravitate toward the extreme views, but the independent-minded and impartial voter, will avoid the 'rhetoric' at these sites, and do their own research. When they do this, they will likely find, Gabrielle Giffords was not a flaming liberal socialist, she was a moderate to conservative (fiscal) Democrat.. a Blue Dog... like Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman. She was FAR from a Nancy Pelosi. She voted to extend the Bush Tax Cuts... She voted to end the moratorium on offshore drilling... maybe the gunman was one of those wacko environmentalist Bush haters? She voted against the Mine Safety Act... maybe Loughner was a disgruntled union representative? See where the liberal logic leads us?
The knee-jerk attempts by those on the left, to somehow attribute blame for this, to Sarah Palin, the usage of cross hairs or targets, the 'tone of rhetoric' on the right, is going to backfire badly for liberals, and they are already beginning to see that. Today, they are starting to change their tune, and attempt to reposition their argument behind a false fortification... oh, of course we have to look at the rhetoric from BOTH sides... but they do not mean this! You see, to a Liberal, what they espouse is never "rhetoric" at all! It's just the "truth" and you want to call it "rhetoric!" So, all of this hate and vile they've unleashed on Bush and the Teabaggers... well, it doesn't apply here! That's NOT rhetoric to the Liberal, so it doesn't count!
In essence, this Blame The Right strategy, is over. The exploitation of this tragedy is well-noted now, and liberals have taken a big steamy crap in their own lunch boxes, AGAIN! They don't realize this yet, they still believe they can somehow make their arguments stick... but this will dissipate in the weeks to come, as they see how much of a political failure it is. Liberals, you shouldn't have ever politicized this, but you did... now it's ugly.
And America watches.
